Paul Verlaine

by Stefan Zweig, Paul Verlaine (Contribution by), Arthur Symons (Translator)

Overview

Paul Verlaine is one of the great lyrical French poets. This study by Stefan Zweig offers a survey of his poetry and a biography, including his famous friendship with Arthur Rimbaud.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781861710840
Publisher:	Crescent Moon Publishing
Publication date:	02/05/2024
Series:	European Writers
Pages:	112
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.31(d)

About the Author

Arthur Symons was known as the 'blond angel', a vagabond poet in the Bohemian tradition of Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud and the Symbolists. Symons spent much of his life in France and Italy; he knew many of the artists and writers of the fin-de-siècle period, including Aubrey Beardsley, Algernon Swinburne, Walter Pater, Edmund Gosse, Joseph Conrad, W.B. Yeats, and Stéphane Mallarmé.